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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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30 Jul 2026
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Eight months after Mike Wheeler disappears without a trace, Will Byers is still living in the New York apartment they once shared - sleeping badly, painting through the night, and leaving the lights on in case Mike ever finds his way home.
Then Will begins to notice someone watching him.
A shadow on the roof across from his studio. Footsteps following him through empty subway stations. A presence in the dark that never comes close enough to frighten him, but makes sure no one else does either.
When Mike finally steps beneath a rain-soaked streetlight, he is alive - but no longer human.
Vampirism has sharpened everything Mike once kept hidden. His hunger. His protectiveness. His jealousy. The love for Will he spent years pretending was only friendship. He has returned colder, stronger, and dangerously devoted, carrying blood on his hands and eight months of secrets between them.
Will should be afraid of the monster Mike has become.
Instead, he invites him home.
Will must decide how much of the darkness he is willing to embrace.
And whether loving a monster might mean becoming one too.Bookmarked by shannarocks
15 Jul 2026
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After a camping trip leaves Mike Wheeler bitten, feverish, and changing in ways no one can explain, Will Byers refuses to look away.
The moon wants to make Mike a monster. Mike believes it already has. But Will knows the shape of him too well - the boy beneath the claws, the devotion beneath the hunger, the love neither of them has been brave enough to name.
As full moons rise and secrets unravel, Mike and Will are pulled into something fierce, tender, and impossible to deny. The wolf recognizes Will as home before Mike can admit what he wants, but the truth was never born from the bite.
It was always there.
Waiting under the same moon.
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07 Jul 2026
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Public Bookmark 113
Mystery Work
Part of Byler Fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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28 Jun 2026
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“I said anything.” Mike laughed. “Come on, you can do better than that. Make me… drink water out of a bowl, or something.”
“Like a dog?”
It was meant to be a joke, but Mike practically short-circuited, his breath hitching as his cheeks flushed pink. Oh my god, he really—
“Okay.” Will focused his gaze intently on Mike, as if he was actually using Jedi mind control powers. “You want… to get on your hands and knees.”
Mike didn’t break eye contact as he slid off the couch and settled onto the hardwood on all fours, peering up at Will as he patiently waited for instruction.
Fuck. This game was going to kill him.
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Mike and Will accidentally get into a totally platonic BDSM dynamic. Because that’s what best friends do. Totally.
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19 Jun 2026
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love like a lead pipe (the cold and callous type) by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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“Does it need to be like ceramics last semester? Do I need to drop you off and pick you up at the door again like a fucking preschooler?” Will shakes his head as best as he can, a whimper escaping from his lips. Mike grips his jaw tighter. “Speak.”
“N-no, Mike.” Yes, actually, Will wants to say. He liked it when Mike did that last semester, walking him to and from class like Will’s big, scary guard dog. Sometimes, if Will was lucky, Mike would wait in the hallway during his class, clutching some mass market paperback, spine cracked and curled in on itself. Even big, scary guard dogs have owners, Will would think as Mike stayed put for him.
In which someone asks for Will’s number and it makes Mike murderously angry.
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- Part 1 of ruckus!
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19 Jun 2026
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into the deep end (take me with you) by sunkissedlover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2026
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Those protective instincts kick in and Mike can’t help himself as a crazy, irrational idea takes root in his mind.
An idea that has absolutely nothing to do with seeing Will practically naked in a speedo two nights a week for an entire year. Nope. Definitely not.
“What if I joined the team with you?” Mike blurts, reddening.
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Will and Mike join the Hawkins High swim team in their senior year, spend waaaay too much time together in teeny tiny speedos and one thing leads to another at the pool…
*Post Vecna-defeat (except El lives) & characters are aged up to 18 because the content is explicit.
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13 Jun 2026
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Will used to know how to create things. Now, at thirty-three, everything feels stuck.
His studio hasn’t been touched in years. His body no longer follows the timelines it once promised. The life he spent a decade building ended in a way he still doesn’t quite know how to recover from.
He tells himself he has time. It doesn’t feel true—but it’s easier than thinking the alternative.
He doesn’t expect anything to change. He definitely doesn’t expect someone to walk into his life and change it.
Especially not someone younger— someone who looks at him with something dangerously close to adoration.
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11 Jun 2026
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For their senior year spring break, the Party sets sail on a 7-day cruise to celebrate the next chapter of their lives. Not much has changed since their last reunion, as long as you don’t count Mike and Will breaking up two years ago, which fractured the friend group permanently and made it so neither of them could stand to be within ten feet of each other.
It’ll be a trip they never forget - that much Will is sure of.
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07 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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- 15/15
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04 Jun 2026
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The summer after graduation, Will learns how to move on, and Mike learns how to live with change.
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- 4/7
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03 Jun 2026
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He was no longer in Hawkins, that much Will knew for certain.
The real question was whether he was even on planet Earth. The thought alone made him feel as if he was losing his mind because it couldn’t be possible...Right? To be torn from his home and dropped off into some unknown world without the faintest idea how it had happened.
And yet, there was no other explanation that made any sense. This place was so far removed from anything he knew, too strange and upside down to belong to the same world he was born into. Maybe he had slipped through space and time. Maybe he was dead, and this was the shape the afterlife took.
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On November 6th 1991, twenty-year-old William Byers went missing. His fate? Lost in the depths of the Kingdom of Valoria—a realm brimming with deadly creatures, otherworldly terrain, and Fae people.
And worst of all is Mike Wheeler, a devoted and noble paladin who promised to return Will home. He’s disarmingly kind, witty, and far smarter than he pretends to be. But his heart is reserved for his destined mate, and Will… Will is already falling in love with him anyway.
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23 May 2026
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the monster in the north wing (and the boy death couldn’t claim) [ON HIATUS] by bylerstatic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 May 2026
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With no name and no future, Will Byers takes a job at the isolated Wheeler Manor, hired to tutor the family’s youngest daughter. He expects a quiet life in a house of stone and silver—completely oblivious to the fact that his education isn't the reason he was brought there.
But the North Wing is breathing.
There is a secret behind the door, something the family has kept starving for a century. Will was told to stay away from it, but in the dead of night, the house begins to whisper. And Will is the only one who knows how to listen.
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18 May 2026
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Eight years since the final battle, Mike and Will share a cramped Brooklyn apartment where the silence is heavy with a predatory rot Mike has carried for nearly a decade. When Will taps back into the Hive Mind, he discovers his best friend in the next room isn't just distant—he’s starving for a source of life only Will can provide.
Or: Mike Wheeler is a vampire, and Will is the only one keeping him alive.
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15 May 2026
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It was a matter of minutes. Minutes that could have changed his fate, that could have averted the fast-approaching disaster that was coming straight at Mike Wheeler.
Minutes that were wasted because no one noticed his disappearance.
And so he was left alone, with something new and dangerous in his veins, a scream in his head, and only one goal: to get out of here.
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Or: Mike Wheeler is dragged to the Soviet Union by the Russians, gains powers, and does everything it takes to survive. Everything.
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27 Apr 2026
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Public Bookmark 1501
Mystery Work
Part of priv00090
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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14 Apr 2026
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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- Part 1 of Super Soaker Series
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- 27/27
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10 Apr 2026
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the longer burn, the sweeter that you smell by aviannabuckley
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Nov 2025
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The words Spiderman said surprised even him, but Will didn’t laugh or brush them aside. He just sat there, sketchbook resting loosely on his knees, eyes fixed on the glow of the skyline as if listening in awe. “You really have a way with words, huh? Reminds me of someone.”
When distance grows between him and Will, Mike finds a new way to be near him, even if it's from behind a mask.
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06 Apr 2026
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talk to me dirty; talk to me sweet by thesweetestdream
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Aug 2026
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Will and Mike accidentally overhear a couple talking dirty over the walkie, and start repeating some of the filthy phrases to each other for shits and giggles. What starts as a joke, soon turns into something they can't stop doing – and can’t tell anyone about.
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Mike and Will start talking dirty to each other for fun. What they don't consider is that it would accidentally turn them on.
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- 17/17
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06 Apr 2026
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The thing flashed behind Will's eyes. Curled over Mike's body as he screamed. Possessive, like a wolf over an animal carcass. He could almost imagine it. Its bloody maw, clawed fingers, caged eyes, like a zoo animal, like something that needed enrichment.
“Mike,” he started, throat tight. “What the fuck bit you?”
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-Or, during a brutal night in the woods, Mike is attacked by something that looks human, but leaves behind a slew of dead dogs and a bite mark on Mike’s throat. And then Mike begins to change.
Will is torn between protecting Mike from himself, or letting him go to become something monstrous.Bookmarked by shannarocks
25 Mar 2026